Word: nobelist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixed blessings to scientists. At every turn, the winners are beseiged with demands to make speeches, grant interviews and perform myriad chores that leave precious little time for research. Even worse, an awed public often takes their statements with almost oracular seriousness. So says Rosalyn Yalow, the 1977 Nobelist in medicine, who concludes that the most prized policy for a laureate may sometimes be silence...
...science. Chairing a committee of scientists assessing the National Cancer Institute's virus research, Zinder helped draft a report that prompted a major reorganization of the program. A native of New York City, he went from Columbia to graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he and Nobelist Joshua Lederberg co-discovered transduction-the process by which a virus deserts its home cell and invades a new one, often altering the new cell's genetic profile. Zinder, an associate editor of Virology, researches and teaches graduate students at New York's Rockefeller University...
...predictions are always too conservative, and that man will soon proceed, and succeed, with his experiments. If he does, he must prepare himself for a social and moral revolution that would affect some of his most cherished institutions, including religion, marriage and the family. With such possibilities in mind, Nobelist George Beadle has warned that "man knows enough but is not yet wise enough to make...